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  1. Parliamentary report highlights demographics challenge and urges immediate action
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    is still much less than the 2008 level, which came to 4.5 million in employment. “The overall..., several sources sounded the alarm on the problem of Greece’s shrinking population. The country’s... recession”. As a result, in 2015 Greece’s fertility rate was 1.33 children per woman, lower than

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  2. R&D and innovation remain low in Greece, OECD finds
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    and improvements in financing for firms. Although R&D spending has increased, it is still lower than most OECD... than scientific activities. Regarding barriers to innovation, firms most often report that they have.... Further compounding the problem is that Greece suffers from a significant brain drain of talented

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  3. Competing claims and narratives in Eastern Mediterranean

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    language’ rather than the dialect of the island. According to Iakovos Polylas - Solomos’ first... and to a certain extent it is legitimate. The problem starts when the prevailing narrative in a State presents... than two decades as a judge in international courts, Rozakis expressed doubts over whether the EEZ

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  4. Govt faces fallout from hospital vaccine mandate, as school opening poses fresh challenges
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    , as many reports note, are less strict than the previous year’s. Pupils will return to classrooms... to potential outbreaks, with intensive testing and contact-tracing rather than automatic suspension... to prioritise supporting refugees “close to the source of the problem, meaning close to Afghanistan”. The prime

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  5. Greek fiscal deficits and debt since 2000
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    than the sum of the deficits. How did this happen? The short answer is that the rest of the world... write-off in history to date. Further, Greece was allowed to pay less interest than it would have..., keep being a problem in Greece. The government needs to resolve them as they are a mark of sloppy

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  6. Govt turns attention to more relief measures in absence of snap polls
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    pensions in 2023, by up to 5 pct, for the first time in more than a decade. Another increase... the opinion polls, which is that voters are more concerned about the cost-of-living crisis than... a potential problem with the subsidy scheme the authorities have devised for electricity bills since

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  7. Nobody has less confidence in their government than the Greeks, OECD finds
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    The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has published its annual Government at a Glance report for 2013. The study includes some interesting data on Greece, particularly with regard to people’s plummeting trust in decision maker...

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  8. Independent Greeks to go it alone rather than join grand right-wing alliance

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    A few days after the prospect of an alliance between New Democracy and ultranationalist LAOS was floated, the possibility of even broader cooperation among right wing parties in Greece has been nipped in the bud. The anti-austerity Independent Greeks, l...

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  9. August trade deficit shrinks by 29.5 pct as imports fall faster than exports

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    Greece’s trade deficit narrowed by 29.5 percent in August, after soaring by a similar rate in July, according to the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT). The absolute figure showed the trade deficit in August fell to 1.23 billion euros, which is the...

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  10. Greek corporate lending rates up to 250 bps higher than eurozone average

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    Greek households’ new time deposit rate fell by 10 basis points (bps) to 0.91 percent in February after remaining broadly stable in the preceding two months, Bank of Greece (BoG) figures showed on Monday. The headline figure for February indicates a new...

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